Life is motion and motion is life, and the same goes for your spine. What we find is that when you lose motion in your spine, the body begins to lose health. That’s why it’s really important to keep exercising, doing yoga and whatever types of stretching exercises you like to do, because it keeps global motion in your body.
When it comes to individual segments of your spine, the spine needs to move segmentally to work properly. If the spine begins to lose proper motion, it starts to create problems. The brain sends out messages and data to all of the organs of the body, but there are also messages and data that feed back up to the brain. When the vertebrae are moving properly, it actually sends out electrical impulses from the spine and nourishes the brain and allows the brain to regulate the physiology of all your organs to keep you healthy.
When the spinal vertebrae are not moving properly, the electrical impulses and data of those particular segments are no longer feeding into the brain. Now the brain is no longer receiving the electrical nourishment and is not able to regulate the physiology, meaning your health will suffer. That is called a subluxation.
That’s why we have whole families that come in, the children and grandparents get checked on a regular basis. Your body needs to have regular motion in the spine, that’s why we look for the subluxation. It’s very important to get family check ups. If you aren’t doing so, give us a call and we’d be glad to check you, your kids, and your whole family. If you have questions about this, don’t hesitate to contact us at Bates Chiropractic (310) 545-4188 or www.chiropractormanhattanbeach.com
Why Would Your Medical Doctor Tell You To Stay Away From A Chiropractor?
Today we’re talking about how medical doctors have said not to go to chiropractors because they’re quacks or unscientific or it’s a cult. I’d like to give you some history behind where all of that came from and the legal roots.
It started back in the early 60s when the American Medical Association, which is the largest healthcare lobbyist in the world, formed a Board on Quackery with the specific purpose to contain and eliminate Chiropractic Care. They did so by pressuring hospitals, their members: medical doctors. If they were to associate with chiropractors, they would be booted out of the AMA, which was a big thing back in the 60s.
It wasn’t until the 80s that five chiropractors challenged the AMA and sued them under the Sherman Act, an anti-trust act, stating that the AMA was monopolizing the healthcare field. On September 25, 1987, the Supreme Court found the American Medical Association guilty of conspiracy and of trying to contain and eliminate a competing profession.
So this biased opinion of Chiropractics stems back from the pressure the AMA placed on medical doctors to not associate with chiropractors.
What was interesting about said lawsuit was that it made it easy for the AMA; all they had to prove was that they were acting in the best interest of the public by protecting them from the “unscientific cultists”, the chiropractors. What was found was they couldn’t prove that chiropractors were doing harm, because a lot of the defendant’s testimonies proved to be in favor of Chiropractics. Also during the trial, it was disclosed that research being done by the AMA, proving Chiropractics to have positive effects, was being suppressed form the public.
There are reasons why a lot of people have this fear of Chiropractics and now we know it originates from the monopoly the AMA practiced against chiropractors, proven by the Supreme Court in 1987.
Bent Twigs Grow Into Bent Trees
Most of us would love to keep our family healthy. How do we do keep our children healthy? Everyone knows to eat right and exercise, but a lot of people are ignoring the fact that when they send their kids to school, they’re sending them off with backpacks that are 30 to 35% their body weight. The kids are looking like turtles walking to school lugging these big backpacks.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates there are about 7200 emergency room visits each year as a result of the heavy backpacks. This is 330% higher than it was in 1996.
The percentage of weight shouldn’t be over 15%. You should weigh your kids’ backpacks to see if the weight exceeds the bodyweight percentage as well if the backpack fits correctly.
Their backpacks should have nice pads on the straps, pulled up snug, as well as a waist belt. Make sure their backpacks aren’t too big, because if they are, you’ll start seeing it buckling down on their rear ends.
So, you have to fit the backpacks properly as well make sure the load isn’t more than 15%.
The reason you need to keep a close on your children’s backpacks is because we’re getting this epidemic with kids having injuries that are short turn. But, after a while, it reforms their spines into bent twigs, which will grow into bent trees. This will lead to degenerative changes quicker that lead to health problems
We want your kids to grow up straight and tall. So, your job this week is look at your children’s backpacks. It they don’t meet the requirements, it’s worth it to throw their backpacks away and go to E.T. Surf or another surf store and fit your kids properly.
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